RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2066, 18 August 1875, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT

„.,,- THIS DAY. (B'efo'ro'W. Fraser, Esq., R.M,) DRUNKENNESS —PLAIN AND \PEBSISTENT. Henry Holmes was charged with .being ?jdru'nk off Eyre-street." He pleaded guilty and was fined 10s and costs or 24 hours' imprisonment,. - • , ■ ' Ellen Duncan was .charged with being drunk in Cochrane street, and further charged , with a breach of the,* Vagrant. Act, ■Having been convicted three times within the preceding twelve months. sss- said -s !ie had hKbiWIHP drink but was not drunk. CgEts|able Hanley swore, the 7 prisoner was drunk, and Mr Bullen stated he had Fined 10s and costs, or 24 hours' imprisonment. With regard to the second charge, prisoner; denied having been-drunk -three ' times. J ; , .- Tr Mr Bullen said.that the husbandries a very respectable man, who ha<Pfrequently applied to know what could be done;with>his wife who was incorrigible in her drunken hrjj^s. , ; _.. 'i' Thetprisoher's^^jed her tfasbarid was absent at Tauranga. ' His Worship ordered her to be im* prisone'd'for seven days to'give her a chance of getting sober.

OBTAINING MONET UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.

Henry Smith was charged with obtaining goods to "'the value of £1 10s from :Benjamin -Greenwood by false pretences -with intent to defraud, on or about April 23rd, 1875. ■ • .- Mr*. Tyler appeared for the prisoner, and applied for a remand as one of his witnesses was at Tairua. Mr Bullen said he was prepared to go on with the case, but would offer no opposition to the remand. demanded until Saturday nest. Bail allowed-^hinuelf in and one surety in £10. \'v :